When I’m 64 (Plus Six): My Favorite Macca
Paul McCartney who, no matter where you stand on rock music, The Beatles or list-making, is indisputably one of the best --and most important-- popular musicians of the last…
Paul McCartney who, no matter where you stand on rock music, The Beatles or list-making, is indisputably one of the best --and most important-- popular musicians of the last…
Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar…
2010: In pace requiescat! This one hurt. The spectacular career of Bob Probert had already ended; his life ended entirely too soon (at the absurdly young age of 45), on…
Living is easy with eyes closed/Misunderstanding all you see, It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out/It doesn't matter much to me. Those aren't just defining lines…
It was thirty years ago today... Where were you? I was in my mother's bedroom, kissing her goodbye before I caught the school bus, and I heard the horrible news…
Before Conan O’Brien in the ‘90s and David Letterman in the ‘80s, there was another—even ‘whiter’—dude who regularly hosted many of the hippest artists and promoted some of the best…
I don't even have a question, but here is the answer: Whenever I listen to Abbey Road, I find myself feeling grateful that the collective world of musicians did…
Where were you? I was in my mother's bedroom, kissing her goodbye before I caught the school bus, and I heard the horrible news on the clock radio (incidentally, I…
Let us not forget, it’s the “Blue Album”. Before it was the cassette, the eight-track, CD or digital download, it was a record, played on things called record players. And…
So: it's been five full decades that The Beatles have dominated music, our minds and, increasingly our wallets. Although its release was an understated affair, you might have heard something…